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SUMMARY:Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang - - The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Caille Millner
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her new new book The Collected Schizophrenias\, on Thursday\, February 7th at 7pm. She will be joined by Caille Milner \nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. \nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification(Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have been in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and listed in Best American Essays 2017. Her awards include the Barnes and Noble Emerging Writers Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, February 7\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-the-collected-schizophrenias-w-caille-millner/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Works in Progress\, An Open Mic for Women (a WOMEN-ONLY event\, all women welcome). We will be remembering our departed sister\, the poet Julia Vinograd. 6:30 potluck\, 7:30 performance\, $7-$10 suggested donation. If you can’t pay\, please help with set-up and clean-up. Please contact your host Linda Zeiser at ‭(510) 701-1022‬ or ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com well in advance to reserve your open mic slot for poetry\, prose\, music\, showing your visual art\, dance\, drama\, or whatever creative work you have in progress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash - - Kelsay Books/Aldritch Press w/ Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, February 10th at 3pm. This month we will be joined by poets from Kelsay Books/Aldritch press: Rachel Dacus\, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas\, Eileen Malone\, Kathleen McClung\, Lenore Weiss\, Andrena Zawinski. \nPoet and novelist Rachel Dacus’s collection\, Gods of Water and Air\, is deliciously diverse. Poems and tales of horseback riding\, ballet class\, a bipolar rocket scientist parent\, a commercial fishing immigrant community abound. She is also author of The Renaissance Club\, a time travel novel\, and the poetry collections Femme au Chapeau and Earth Lessons. Her writing has appeared in Atlanta Review\, Boulevard\, Prairie Schooner\, The Pedestal\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review\, as well as in anthologies. \nCarol Lynn Stevenson Grellas’s new book of poetry is On the Edge of the Ethereal. Sam Rasnake\, editor of Blue Fifth Review\, calls it\, “a dark and beautiful book filled marvelously with the nature of loss\, pain and its evasion\, leaving\, things left unsaid\, ‘inhaling a world gone wrong’…Grellas is a remarkable poet with an unflinching eye and ear for details. The writing is a powerful\, rewarding journey\, not to be missed.” She is an eight-time Pushcart nominee and a four-time Best of the Net nominee. A Red Ochre Press Chapbook contest-winner\, her work has appeared in many magazines including The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She has published other collections\, including her chapbook\, Things I Can’t Remember to Forget. \nEileen Malone has published her poetry in over 500 literary journals and anthologies\, some of which have earned significant awards\, including four Pushcart nominations. Her newest book is It Could Be Me\, Although Unsure. Her previous books include Letters with Taloned Claws and I Should Have Given Them Water. She founded and now directs the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition and its Awards Event at San Francisco Main Library. She has taught for California Poets in the Schools and at Bay Area community colleges\, and hosted an online interview show for Cable Access TV San Francisco. \nKathleen McClung’s new book is The Typists Play Monopoly. Almost the Rowboat is her previous collection. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Ekphrasis\, Atlanta Review\, California Quarterly\, and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, and associate director and sonnet sponsor/judge for the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. She teaches at Skyline College\, where she directs Women on Writing: WOW! Voices Now\, on campus. She is a 2018-2019 writer-in-residence for Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nLenore Weiss received an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University where she won the Clark-Gross Award (judged by Paul La Farge) and the Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue Contest. She recently won first prize in the Alexandria Quarterly Press small stories series for her flash fiction chapbook\, Holding on to the Fringes of Love. Her three poetry collections form a trilogy about being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island\, Two Places\, and The Golem. In reviewing Two Places\, Nina Serrano wrote\, “Weiss’ mind travels like the speed of light from the real\, to the symbolic and the surreal.” \nAndrena Zawinski’s poetry has received accolades for free verse\, form\, lyricism\, spirituality\, and social concern. Landings is her recent Kelsay Books collection. In Landings\, she presents poems that embrace the worldwide condition of women\, immigrants\, and the working class alongside reverence for the natural world. Rebecca Foust lauds the collection “as a book that offers wisdom and solace and one you will take comfort in reading again and again.” Her other books include Something About\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry winner. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, February 10\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-kelsay-books-aldritch-press-w-rachel-dacus-carol-lynn-stevenson-grellas-eileen-malone-kathleen-mcclung-lenore-weiss-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Radio Free Vermont
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben\, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. \nAs the host of Radio Free Vermont–“underground\, underpowered\, and underfoot”–seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an “undisclosed and double-secret location.” With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson\, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont\, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now\, he and his radio show must remain untraceable\, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen\, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. \nIn Radio Free Vermont\, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that’s become more popular than ever–seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry\, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare\, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of ‘Ethan Allen Day’ and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty\, biting\, and terrifyingly timely\, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben’s fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement. \n  \n\n\n\n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, February 11\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-radio-free-vermont/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan: Women\, Ritual\, Ecology in India
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVANDANA SHIVA + VIJAYA NAGARAJAN\nWomen\, Ritual\, Ecology in India \nadvance tickets: $12: :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nVandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, environmental activist\, food sovereignty advocate\, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi\, she has authored more than twenty books\, Including Who Really Feeds the World?\, The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology and Making Peace with the Earth. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander\, Edward Goldsmith\, Ralph Nader\, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices\, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993\, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize”. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. \nEvery day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kolam\, a ritual design made of rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Propelled by a lifelong interest and deeply informed research\, Nagarajan provides a poetic and surprising entry into the layered complexities of Hindu culture. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories\, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions–beauty\, history\, gender\, literature\, religion\, anthropology\, mathematics\, and ecology. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vandana-shiva-and-vijaya-nagarajan-women-ritual-ecology-in-india/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Labor Law
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Labor Law\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTransformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges for regulating work for the common good. But it also presents opportunities for a fresh start. This lecture will examine some of the recent radical changes in the law of the workplace in California and nationwide. \nCatherine Fisk is the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at Berkeley. She teaches and writes on the law of the workplace\, on the legal profession\, and on free speech and freedom of association. Her most recent book is Writing for Hire: Unions\, Hollywood\, and Madison Avenue(Harvard U Press 2016) and her next book will be on labor protest and labor lawyers in the mid-twentieth century. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagining-labor-law/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Labor Law
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTransformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges for regulating work for the common good. But it also presents opportunities for a fresh start. This lecture will examine some of the recent radical changes in the law of the workplace in California and nationwide. \nCatherine Fisk is the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at Berkeley. She teaches and writes on the law of the workplace\, on the legal profession\, and on free speech and freedom of association. Her most recent book is Writing for Hire: Unions\, Hollywood\, and Madison Avenue(Harvard U Press 2016) and her next book will be on labor protest and labor lawyers in the mid-twentieth century. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagining-labor-law-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Freud's Bar - - All the Jazz w/Henry Markman\, MD
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, February 13th at 6:30pm. This week Henry Markmanwill present All That Jazz: The Therapy in Music\, The Music in Therapy. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \nMusic is healing and enlivening\, as therapy can be. Part listening party\, part lecture\, we’ll look at what makes jazz and human conversation so meaningful and potentially freeing. “Communicate musicality\,” an idea derived from infant-parent studies\, is an intimate song without words – shared\nemotional narratives based on rhythm\, tone and gesture that are deeply pleasurable and creative. When it is flowing\, there is a sharing of rhythm that nurtures intimacy and creative expression in jazz and therapy. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nHenry Markman\, MD is a psychoanalyst working in Berkeley. He has written and taught seminars on aesthetic experience\, beauty\, music and psychoanalysis\, and various aspects of therapeutic technique and theory. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowse For Books\n\nPeruse our shelves \n\n\n\nOur Customers Have Great Taste!\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletter\n\nSign up \n\n\n\nAudio\n\nYour audiobook needs await you at Libro.fm \nCouldn’t make it to an event? 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-all-the-jazz-w-henry-markman-md/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Andrea Brady with John James
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Brady with John James\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-andrea-brady-with-john-james/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya
DESCRIPTION:We’re really excited to host two amazing\, accomplished\, dynamic writers and thinkers\, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! \nDiane Ward was born in Washington\, DC where she attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She received a doctorate degree in Geography from UCLA. Her poetry publications include a collaboration with Tina Darragh and Jane Sprague in the Belladonna Elders series\, No List (no list) from Seeing Eye Books in Los Angeles\, Flim-Yoked Scrim from Factory School\, and When You Awake from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her poem\, “Fade on Family” was set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster and performed as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound series at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. “InHouse\,” a constructed poem\, appeared in Kindergarde\, the First Avant Garde Anthology for Children\, edited by Lee Ann Brown. She curated an edition of the Poetic Research Bureau’s “live magazine\,” @SEA\, around the theme “Flows.” She has been a member of “The Reader’s Chorus\,” performing in Los Angeles at MOCA\, the Museum of Jurassic Technology\, and the Velaslavasay Panorama. Her collaboration with the artist Ursula Brookbank is documented in the chapter\, “Borne-away: Tracing a gendered dispossession by accumulation” in the edited book\, Geopoetics in Practice\, forthcoming from Routledge. \nRoberto Bedoya is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland where he most recently shepherded the City’s Cultural Plan. – “Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan”. Through-out his career he has consistently supported artists-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging throughout his career. His essays “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-Belonging”; “Spatial Justice: Rasquachification\, Race and the City” have reframed the discussion on cultural policy to shed light on exclusionary practices in cultural policy decision making. In addition to his essays he is the author The Ballad of Cholo Dandy\, a poetry chapbook (Chax Press) and an excerpt of his play “Decoto” is anthologized in Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997; ( Nightboat Books). He is a Creative Placemaking Fellow at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/then-now-diane-ward-and-roberto-bedoya/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Poetry Express
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, with open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-poetry-express/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bruce Bagnell":MAILTO:bagnell.bruce.a@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:David Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nDavid Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His most recent book of poetry is Duppies\, a collection that mixes the tonality of lyric poetry with the aggression\, grit\, and speed of grime\, London’s street music. Marriott’s other books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo and In Neuter. His book Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being is forthcoming from Stanford University in June. A leading theorist of afro-pessimism\, he teaches black critical theory and culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-marriott/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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SUMMARY:Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile - - A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise\, on Tuesday\, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa Haile. \nSandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child\, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy\,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive\, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd\, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps\, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty\, single-spaced pages\, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic\,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. \n“Searing” (O\, The Oprah Magazine)\, “enthralling” (Star-Tribune\, Minneapolis)\, and “a marvel” (Esquire)\, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradiseshows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography\, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family\, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years\, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind\, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that\, to most people\, remains unimaginable. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSandy Allen is a writer\, speaker\, editor and teacher. Their essays and features stories have been published by BuzzFeed News\, CNN Opinion\, Bon Appétit’s Healthyish\, and Pop-Up Magazine. Sandy was previously BuzzFeed News’s deputy features editor. They also founded and ran the online-only literary quarterly Wag’s Revue. Sandy’s work focuses on constructs of normalcy\, including psychiatric disability and gender. Sandy is non-binary trans. Originally from Muir Beach\, CA\, they live in the Catskills. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is their first book. For more\, visit HelloSandyAllen.com \nRahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Outside\, and Pacific Standard. In Open Country\, her forthcoming memoir about through-hiking the Appalachian Trail\, explores what it means to move through American and the world as a black woman. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandy-allen-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-a-kind-of-miraculous-paradise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love. \n“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads\, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review\, The Offing\, and PANK\, has she been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore\, Art Farm Nebraska\, and The Vermont Studio Center\, among others. A born Vermonter\, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. \n\nMiriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth (University of Pittsburgh\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Poetry Foundation\, she’s written about the nomads\, hitchhikers\, and hobos living on America’s margins and crossed the continent as a hitchhiker and aboard freight trains herself. The author of two chapbooks—All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers\, 2013) and Pact-Blood\, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions\, 2013)\, Miriam grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas\, the daughter of a New York Jew and a goat-raising anthropologist involved in the back-to-the-land movement. These days she lives in  the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches creative writing and ESL\, helping jewelry students use laser cutters and architecture grad students wrap their heads around building information systems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading in February: \nJenny Qi is a writer and scientist. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, BLR\, Atticus Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net\, and her first manuscript was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize. She has a PhD in Cancer Biology and works in science and health communications. She also co-hosts a storytelling podcast called Bone Lab Radio\, now in Season 2. Website: www.jqiwriter.com \nTony Aldarondo Is a Puerto Rican poet who has read his poetry from San Fran to Japan\, and in many venues throughout the bay area. He is an actor and a voiceover artist. And a member of the screen actors Guild\, and has toured the state of California with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He loves writing Poetry\, plays\, and music and is super excited to read at Pegasus Books. \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press) and two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover (Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Best New Poets\, Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco\, CA and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, the Writing Salon\, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth arts education non-profit. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, Sacramento\, Vancouver\, and Mumbai. Nomadic Press will publish his first collection Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory in August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nYaccaira Salvatierra is an educator and art instructor living in San José. Her poems have appeared in Huizache\, Diálogo\, Puerto del Sol\, and Rattle\, among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry\, the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. Although she has lived in over seven cities in California\, San José has been home for the past 17 years where she lives with her two sons. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
DESCRIPTION:Meet Jasmine Guillory\, a writer\, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. \nNew York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay called The Wedding Date “a charming\, warm\, sexy gem of a novel.” \nEntertainment Weekly gushed “Guillory writes with the fizzy effervescence of a glass of champagne\, and the entire book goes down just as easily (and quickly). The Wedding Date starts out as a fling\, but it makes us want a more long-term relationship with Guillory and her irresistible writing style.” \nKirkus Reviews called The Proposal “A charming book for the modern romance lover.” \nYou can find her online at @thebestjasmine on Twitter\, or at jasmineguillory.com. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing following the main event\, courtesy of East Bay Booksellers. \nWhen:\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019 – 6:30pm \nWhere:\nOakland Public Library: Main Library\nBradley Walters Community Room\n125 14th Street\nOakland\, CA 94612\nPhone: (510) 238-3134\nSee map: Google Maps
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-jasmine-guillory/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:Oakland poet and actor\, George Higgins\, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, and others. About his collection There\, There\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “…this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “…these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull.”  Charlotte Innes has had poems appear in The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Rattle\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond\, and others. About her collection Descanso Drive\, Sarah Maclay wrote\, “Urgent\, muscular\, rapt\, distilled—at times like a melding of Plath and Boland—and as unnervingly prescient as it is attentive to and haunted by both the historical and personal past…” and Rick Mullin wrote\, “…finely-crafted poems\, beautifully voiced\, that carry us from her native England to her new home in California.” A limited open reading and a brief interview with the featured poets will be included.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourth-friday-formal-george-higgins-and-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Higgins & Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There\, There (White Violet Press\, 2013)\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull. There\, There is an auspicious debut.”  His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa)\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, Poetry Flash\, Salamander\, and Fugue\, among others. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College where he was a Holden Fellow. He is also a Cave Canem Fellow. He performs completely improvised one act plays with the improv troupe the (i)ncidentalists. \n(Photo: Jon Rou)\nCharlotte Innes is the author of Descanso Drive(Kelsay Books\, 2017)\, a first book of poems\, and two chapbooks\, Licking the Serpent (2011) and Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles (2009)\, both with Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in many publications including The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Tampa Review and Rattle. They have also been anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books\, 2015) and The Best American Spiritual Writing for 2006 (Houghton Mifflin\, 2006)\, amongst others. A former newspaper reporter\, she has also written on literary topics for the Los Angeles Times\, The Nation and other publications. Although she is originally from England\, she has lived for almost 30 years in Los Angeles where she has taught journalism at the University of Southern California\, as well as English\, journalism\, and creative writing at high schools throughout the Los Angeles area. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-higgins-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE 28
DESCRIPTION:THERE 28  will be Friday\, February 22\, 2019\, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele\, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande\, and poet MK Chavez\, also of Oakland. Musical guests TBA. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the (usually) third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-28/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory\, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems\, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our February author Rebecca Gomez Farrell will discuss her novel Wings Unseen and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nRebecca Gomez Farrell writes all the speculative fiction genres she can conjure up. Her first fantasy novel\, Wings Unseen\, debuted in August 2017 from Meerkat Press. You can find her short stories in over 20 anthologies\, magazines\, and websites including Dark Luminous Wings\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and Fright into Flight. Becca co-leads the 400-member strong East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup group and organizes a chapter of the national Women Who Submit writing organization\, which encourages female writers to send their work out for publication. She also co-moderates Facebook resource groups for female-identifying writers and is a regular participant in the Bay Area literary reading scene. Becca’s food\, drink\, and travel blog\, theGourmez.com\, has garnered multiple accolades and influences every tasty bite of her fictional worldbuilding. Fiction Website: RebeccaGomezFarrell.com. Social Media: @theGourmez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-gomez-farrell-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder - - Notes from Cyberground
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 26\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\, on Tuesday\, February 26th at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Matthew Zapruder. \nAmerica under Donald Trump. Russia under Vladimir Putin. Many have ridiculed them. None have done so with such scathing wit as Mikhail Iossel. From a youth spent in the USSR to a life remade in the USA\, Iossel shares the brunt of this experience on Facebook\, where thousands follow his blistering posts on Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia\, and his lyrical\, eerily timely reflections on life under totalitarianism. Notes from Cyberground brings together a choice selection of Iossel’s aphorisms\, ranging from a few words to a few hundred words. Each chapter covers a month from Election Day 2016 to October 2018. Even when comical\, this gem of a book is dead serious. It will bring solace to anyone who feels distressed by today’s surreal politics \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMikhail Iossel\, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W. W. Norton) and coeditor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive\, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House\, 2010)\, is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal and the founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international program. Back in the Soviet Union\, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer/submarine demagnetizer and as roller-coaster security guard\, and belonged to the organization of samizdat writers\, Club-81. He came to the US in 1986\, at the age of thirty\, a whole and complete life behind him\, and started writing in English in 1988. Among his awards are Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Stegner Fellowships. His stories and other prose\, in English and in translation to several languages\, have appeared in NewYorker.com\, Guernica\, Literarian\, AGNI\, North American Review\, Threepenny Review\, Interia\, Boulevard\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-w-matthew-zapruder-notes-from-cyberground/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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